Gary Robbins

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Gary Robbins has been a journalist for more than 30 years and currently covers science, technology. He joined the paper in April 2010 after working for 25 years at the Orange County Register, where he was science editor. Robbins was born and raised in Maine and attended Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 1978. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT during the 2000-01 academic year, and a Science Writer Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 2001.

Recent Articles

Daytime high temperatures will vary from slightly above average to average this week in San Diego County as the region continues to move back and forth between modest low and high pressure systems. Sunday’s high in San Diego will hit 71 or 72. The figure will dip to 68 on Monday, tick up to 70...

The National Institutes of Health will today begin trying to enroll one million people across the country in “All of Us,” a study that’s meant to clarify how our genes, lifestyle and environment affect our health. Here are answers to some questions about the nature and potential impact of the $1.5...

Would you share intimate details about your health in the hope that it would someday help scientists find better ways to fight such afflictions as cancer, dementia and heart disease? Your health care provider may soon ask you that question as part of one of the largest efforts in American history...

Grab some sunscreen and a hat. You’re going to need both this weekend. A high pressure system will lift temperatures far above average, starting on Friday, when the daytime high hits 74 in San Diego. That’s six degrees above normal. Some inland valleys and foothills could reach 90, says the National...

We know you want to sleep in. But you should get up before dawn on Saturday and look to the northwest. NASA’s InSight spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 4:05 a.m. and will produce a contrail that will likely be visible from San Diego County. The contrail will...

The UC San Diego research vessel Sally Ride came to the rescue of a catamaran that got into trouble off Tahiti this week when its mast was knocked out of service during a storm. “We received a call from the Coast Guard two nights ago, asking if we could render assistance [to] a dismasted catamaran...

Eight women have told the journal Science that they were sexually harassed by Salk Institute biologist Inder Verma, allegations that the star researcher denied through his attorney on Tuesday. Science reported that the alleged harassment occurred from 1976 to 2016 and involved such things as forced...

A series of small earthquakes broke beneath the seafloor near the southern tip of San Clemente Island early Tuesday, causing brief shaking that was not widely felt along the San Diego County coastline. The U.S. Geological Survey says the series began with a 3.7 temblor at 4:42 a.m., followed by...